By Connie Leonard – bio | email
Posted by Charles Gazaway – email  

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Two young men are being treated at University Hospital in Louisville after a near drowning Tuesday night in Harrison County, IN. According to Conservation Officer Mac Spainhour with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, the incident happened just before 7 p.m. on Little Indian Creek near the YMCA in Harrison County. 

Spainhour identified the young men as Evan Alexander and Bradley Miller, both between the ages 18 and 19. At last report, Alexander was in critical condition and on a breathing machine in ICU; Miller was said to be up and alert. A third person, 19-year old Braden Richie, helped get the other two teens out.

The three were swimming in an area near Little Indian Creek. Spainhour said witnesses told them moments after they saw the boys on the levee toward the lower head dam, they heard someone screaming.

“What you have on a low water head dam is that the water that comes over the dam has a turbine motion called a boil,” said Spainhour. “It recycles and is powerful enough it keeps going and brings you to the top then brings you back down.”

Spainhour says there was a double drowning in the same area several years ago.

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